What can you tell me? — K.A. Answer: The puppet was based on the Howdy Doody character, star of the well-known children’s TV show aired by NBC between 1947 and 1960. Buffalo Bob Smith (born ...

SHOREWOOD - For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around. Gruber didn ...

I received this Howdy Doody marionette for Christmas in 1953 or ’54. I still have the original box and instructions, and the puppet is in excellent condition. Does it have any value?

Four months after the show started, NBC sued the original puppeteer, Frank Paris, for ownership of the first Howdy Doody puppet and lost. Soon after the show went off the air 12 years later ...

Donation Contested The museum claimed that Rose, who took the puppet to hisWaterford, Conn., studio after The Howdy Doody Show went offthe air in 1960, promised to donate it. Rose's family argued ...

The original Howdy Doody puppet belongs with the Detroit Institute of Arts, no strings attached, a federal judge ruled. The ruling settles a dispute between the museum and the family of Rufus Rose ...

Dubrow's extensive collection of Howdy treasures includes an original Howdy Doody puppet, which hosts the special and the new wraparounds, cuing the audience to the inevitable screwups and other ...

Dubrow's extensive collection of Howdy treasures includes an original Howdy Doody puppet, which hosts the special and the new wraparounds, cuing the audience to the inevitable screwups and other ...

Like the original, it was a puppet-based variety show aimed at young viewers. The show followed Howdy Doody, a red-headed puppet cowboy who interacted with a colorful cast of puppets and humans.

SHOREWOOD, Wisc., — For Mathew Gruber, it's a window to the past, when television was young and a freckle-faced puppet named Howdy Doody was the star of the biggest children's program around.